PHIL 160D3- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Philosophy Main
• Course: PHIL 160D3
• Professor: Marc Johansen

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Observation 1: sample of pure potassium does not burn yellow. Observation 2: sample of unknown substance does not burn yellow. Observation 2 seems relevant, even if we later learn that the substance was pure potassium. Observing a white shoe (cid:894)or (cid:271)la(cid:272)k ra(cid:448)e(cid:374)(cid:895) (cid:373)ay or (cid:373)ay (cid:374)ot (cid:272)o(cid:374)fir(cid:373) (cid:862)all ra(cid:448)e(cid:374)s are (cid:271)la(cid:272)k. (cid:863) It depends on the order in which you learn its properties. Confirming evidence must have the potential to refute. You know something in the box is white. You know something in the box is a shoe. Generalization 1: all the emeralds observed prior to 2016, in diverse circumstances, have been green. Something is grue just in case it is either. First observed before 2020 and green or. Not first observed before 2020 and blue. Generalization 2: all the emeralds observed prior to 2016 have been grue. Emeralds discovered in 2021 will not be grue. Generalization 1 & 2 have the same form: